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• Post #4503434

  Today's Russian idiom: " #PotemkinVillage" #CatherinetheGreat visited #Crimea in 1787. #GrigoryPotemkin constructed fake villages along the #Dnipro River to convince her all was well It was not An old story, still very relevant: To defeat your enemy, know your enemy And for #Russia, that means pierce the veil of lies Show how something "strong" is not " #Ukraine destroys air defenses protecting #Putin's palace near #Gelendzhik, Russian media report"...

• Post #4478226

  @baearea_lenita@mstdn.party @vnikolov@ieji.de @Ilka4You@mastodon.social @BruceMirken@mas.to @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @Seb321@mastodon.social @Robotistry@fediscience.org @ariaflame@masto.ai @Amoshias@esq.social @hotelzululima@mastodon.social @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social this level of hyperfocused "concern" only helps MAGA AOC engages with asswipe media personalities: true it's stupid. that's a ding on AOC and there's more serious topics, no? "Tuls...

• Post #4455467

  I can't stand entitlement and privilege ...but there are some exceptions "A new declaration in Mexico gives 19 cats roaming the presidential palace food and care fur-ever" https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cats-national-palace-president-lopez-obrador-501eb21e6953850369261013c94a180a #mexico #cats #caturday #cat

• Post #4442764

  #Deutschland is suffering escalating provocations from #Russia We only see some of them The latest features a bus driver doing kung fu kicks to bring down a #drone No really: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/bus-driver-kicked-explosive-drone-out-of-air-at-german-airport-possibly-preventing-attack-lawmaker-says/ #Germany: We don't have visibility into all the provocations, nor your responses. So my comment is perhaps obvious and pointless But here it is for everyone else: They gi...

• Post #4430266

  Coming soon to a world near you: DNA script kiddies GrokPox Infectious slop Memetically Modified Organisms LulzCrew variant HerpesRabies Genomic Shitcoins Etc., etc All sorts of dystopian bioterror shit you saw in a bad movie once 'Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by #AI' (Jokes aside, it's really about using bacteriophages to treat antibiotic resistant E Coli infections But... yeah) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-sc...

• Post #4387712

  let's review two things people still struggle with: 1. not voting only helps #MAGA it does not improve nor help anything. it only serves your selfish entitlement and smug self-gratification 2. a 3rd party #vote in our shit #FPTP system only helps MAGA it divides the left vote. it's just math we have to take over the #Democrats it's the only way And look! people are beginning to get it 😁 : EARLY RESULTS. they can still lose https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/04/m...

• Post #4346889

  A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur https://www.satyress.com/ So I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me 😵‍💫 I don't think I'm being rescued I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being p...

• Post #4339889

  "Cool #AI #cartoon" Nope This is a page from the 1981 #comicBook "Power and Peril in the Promised Land" - The #IncredibleHulk issue 256 This shit's been going on for a long time (Sadly the creator of this comic, #BillMantlo, was a victim of a hit-and-run in 1992. He suffered brain damage and has been institutionalized ever since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mantlo Bill co-created the shit talking #MCU #Marvel #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #superhero #RocketRaccoon) #...

• Post #4248241

  #UEFA Union of #European #Football Associations has drawn a line in the sand: #FIFA can not pass ownership of the #WorldCup to private investors Imagine the World Cup without Spain, Germany, France, etc Could happen #Plutocracy is gobbling up the world So an important stand against corrupt avarice "As a result of today’s discussion, no UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive" https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a...

• Post #4242190

  Did you see the #Odyssey? The scene where the Laestrygonians decimate the crew (3,000 yo spoiler) uses forced perspective to make "giants" (like how they made "hobbits" in #LotR) 2.1 m/ 7 foot men in the background, a 1.4 m/ 4 foot 6 inch woman in the foreground, a small aperture, et voila: giants "Woman? You mean #MattDamon" No That's #DevynDalton, a Canadian stuntwoman, on the #movie's poster. Damon called her biceps "the greatest arms I have eve...

• Post #4227721

  Most of our sense of taste is in the nose So us humans eat with our nose Animals too of course #Elephants take the concept of eating with their nose a little too far though 🤭 #Elephant

• Post #4116187

  If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially... " #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale" https://futurism...

• Post #4089785

  Helaas pindakaas #Dutch dadaist #artist #WimTSchippers passed away last month at 83. A fixture of cultural life in the #Netherlands In tribute, Museum #BoijmansvanBeuningen in #Rotterdam covered its floor in #peanutbutter 'detailed instructions… stipulate that curators should apply 15.6kg of non-chunky peanut butter to every square metre of the floor and spread it as “smoothly and monotonously as possible”… not approached “with any educational purpose”' https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

• Post #4088953

  @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @xinit@mastodon.coffee yes, the rules of linguistic reappropriation are not simple. you don't "just do it" 1. for terms that can be flipped: no one controls the process. it's sort of something that everyone just spontaneously agrees upon in a groundswell, from the bottom up, never top down. because then it's genuine, rather than manufactured which never works 2. some terms have a taint of such ugliness and cruelty no one can reappropriate the...

• Post #4088408

  In #India in May, Chief Justice #SuryaKant compared #unemployed #youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites” in a hearing Well there's an interesting thing that happens when you use a slur against a group of people: #Reappropriation An insult flipped to a statement of pride Now mere frustration among young Indians over #education, #jobs and the #economy has morphed into #protests and even a political movement: #CJP the #CockroachJanataParty https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-janata...

• Post #4088404

  Follow up to: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116709382859132554 " #India’s education minister resigns amid Cockroach youth movement protests" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/dharmendra-pradhan-india-education-minister-resigns-cockroach-movement Something every people of every country need to learn (many know, many don't): You fight for something, you win You sit there in inert, whiny cynicism and fragile, impotent perfectionism... you're only aiding malic...

• Post #4012577

  I have no idea what's going on but I'm impressed and somewhat frightened. She's like The Terminator Is it a clothing ad? An ad for caffeine? 🫨 Her name is Liang Li and it might be an ad but I can't find the ad angle. Perhaps she's an athletic woman who just likes to go ham in formal wear, judging by her channel: @liangli521@www.tiktok.com And no, it's #NotAI (but the video is certainly sped up)

• Post #3969580

  "Rising #boxer #HannahRapp killed in #Texas after police say driver accelerated in reverse and struck her #bicycle" Apparently the driver drove by fast and almost side swiped them, so her boyfriend who was biking with her raised his arms in exasperation. So the driver killed Hannah #RIP https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boxer-hannah-rapp-killed-texas-driver-strikes-bicycle-rcna588234 #sports #boxing #cycling #USA

• Post #3928690

  Where is the world's largest #IMAX #theatre? It's the Traumpalast Leonberg #Theater in #Leonberg, #Germany #Deutschland 38.8 meters x 21 meters (127 feet x 69 feet for us American idiots) The theater is so proud of it, they put together a little demo to show it off using the objects-projecting-through-a-border 3D visual trick #movies #cinema

• Post #3872601

  #Trump is addressing the #USA tonight with #election lies #NBC, #ABC, and #CNN won't show it Some networks that are mostly good will still carry it, some networks that are questionable won't carry it, but we at least acknowledge NBC ABC and CNN, regardless of other negative valid issues, on this specific topic, they recognized bullshit and rejected it, and we applaud them for that https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/nbc-and-abc-wont-carry-trump-primetime-election-spee...

• Post #3834724

  There will be those who won't know or care until the bullshit bites them in the ass personally, and until then "AI is awesome!" " #Meta Platforms is facing a federal #lawsuit in the #UnitedStates after 26 current and former #employees alleged that the company used #AI-assisted tools during a major round of #layoffs in a way that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions, #disabilities, or those on protected medical or #familyLeave" https://voice.lapaas...

• Post #3824920

  It's vacation season! Let's compare and contrast 1. Ukrainians on vacation, vs... (1/2) #France #UkraineWar #Ukraine #Russia

• Post #3823586

  Little known cultural difference between the USA and #Canada: In the US, our garbage and recycling bins take solitary migrations While in Canada, migrating is done in groups Fascinatingly enough, in the #UK they run for elected office! (Spotted in #Sherbrooke #Quebec)

• Post #3814362

  Hey #Houston #Texas! How's the #Flock camera roll out going? 🤭

• Post #3807095

  "How obviously #racist do we have to be?" This is a #townHall meeting in #Missouri with #GOP representative #MarkAlford. Everyone in this room is a #Trump voting asshole And... a glimmer of a human conscience! What she doesn't understand is that the unaccountable #bigotry and malice she enabled doesn't care what she thinks. That's what #MAGA represents: "I got mine, fuck you." The "fuck you" applies to her too You're looking at a #conJob victim w...

• Post #3798042

  @ReggieHere@mastodon.social @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl i can't blame people for not knowing, but they should educate themselves as to the basics of their voting system, in all its shit "glory" and as Dr. Murphy notes, some of it like the Green Party is a straight cynical trojan horse play to divide the left vote and defeat the Democrats, encouraged by MAGA, and nothing more

• Post #3798015

  @2legged@mastodon.ie @dnkboston@apobangpo.space @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @ReggieHere@mastodon.social @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl claire, if you care about imperialism, work to get ireland to stop helping ethnofascist mass murder of ukrainians: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/07/12/ireland-should-not-be-pushed-by-eu-on-future-of-aughinish-alumina-plant-limerick-mayor-says/ if you want to note how much the usa sucks, fine. the usa fucking...

• Post #3797885

  #ICE kills another person This time in #Maine 😩😔 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biddeford-maine-ice-investigation-fatal-shooting-rcna587279 #SusanCollin's office is swarmed with #protesters chanting "vote her out" YES! They get it! This is how we fix it This is why we're even in this predicament: people didn't vote Fuck you and your fucking #perfectionism Fuck you and your fucking #cynicism You have blood on your hands. You are to blame for these deaths as...

• Post #3781005

  #SamNeill has died 😔 One of the greats #RIP https://deadline.com/2026/07/sam-neill-remembered-tributes-peaky-blinders-actor-1236980581/

• Post #3774990

  You Europeans are always complaining about #Europe. And I'm not saying Europe is perfect and deserves no criticism, but as an American I am often envious of your set of problems versus our set of problems. So some of you may roll your eyes at news like this but for me it is amazing and a glorious revelation " #France to ban advertising for #fossilFuels" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/07/09/france-to-ban-advertising-for-fossil-fuels_6755307_19.html